Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism

Contents

Contents Introduction: The Red Mask of Sanity 1 PART I | Tonal Treason and HUAC’s Psychoanalytic Theater ONE Black Performances and the Stagecraft of Statecraft 33 TWO Performing Informing and Shrieking Innocence: Surveillance, Informance, and the Performance of Performance 62 PART II | Discordant Tones and the Melody of Freedom at Peekskill THREE Anticommunism and the American Lynching Imagination 91 FOUR Shedding Blood and Beating Back Fascists 112 FIVE Staging Anticommunism, Staging Racist Violence 136 Coda: The Complex and the Rupture 160 Appendix: Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 163 Notes 173 Bibliography 199 Index 215 ...